* Rewritten --restore code from scratch. It is much more intuitive now.

* Parameters for distributed computing simplified.

NVidia driver notes:

Nothing special here. Everything should work out-of-the-box.

AMD driver notes:

Starting with this version, Catalyst v11.11 is the new recommended driver version.

Nothing to worry, even if oclHashcat-plus has not been updated yet, it will continue to work fine.

Linux users benefit from Catalyst v11.11 for two more reasons:

* The 100% CPU killer bug problem is fixed.

* It finally ships with an embedded OpenCL runtime. In other words: no more need to install the AMD APP SDK.

Important: You have to uninstall the AMD APP SDK v2.4. Then, after uninstalling the SDK, make sure the correct libOpenCL.so is loaded (the one which ships with the driver). You can verify this by doing an "ldd oclHashcat-lite64.bin" and check the path. It should link to "/usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1". If it is not found, you may have to create an symlink from "libOpenCL.so" to "libOpenCL.so.1". For some unknown reason the Catalyst installer did not do this automatically on my box.

Performance improvements:

AMD hd5970 (Linux Ubuntu 11.10, 64bit, Catalyst v11.11)

Code:

vBulletin > v3.8.5: 33,50%

SHA1: 0.47%

sha1($pass.$salt): 0.56%

MySQL > v4.1: 1.73%

MD4: 1.11%

SHA256: 12.58%

descrypt, DES(Unix): 23.21%

SL3: 2.44%

AMD hd6990 (Windows7, 64bit, Catalyst v11.11)

Code:

MD5: 4.64%

md5($pass.$salt): 4.50%

md5(md5($pass)): 11.22%

vBulletin < v3.8.5: 11.55%

vBulletin > v3.8.5: 29.96%

SHA1: 3.39%

sha1($pass.$salt): 3.14%

MySQL > v4.1: 7.65%

MD4: 2.22%

NTLM: 0.43%

DCC: 6.77%

MSSQL: 3.19%

SHA256: 8.35%

descrypt, DES(Unix): 20.44%

SL3: 3.33%

Oracle 11G: 3.20%

NVidia gtx580 (Ubuntu 10.10, 64 bit, ForceWare 280.13)

Code:

MD5: 1.53%

md5($pass.$salt): 1.53%

md5(md5($pass)): 2.93%

vBulletin < v3.8.5: 2.93%

SHA1: 6.21%

sha1($pass.$salt): 6.21%

MySQL > v4.1: 1.89%

MD4: 17.67%

NTLM: 18.67%

DCC: 16.57%

descrypt, DES(Unix): 5.60%

SL3: 6.06%

Oracle 11G: 6.33%

NVidia 560 Ti (Ubuntu 11.10, 64 bit, ForceWare 280.13)

Code:

MD5: 2.53%

md5($pass.$salt): 2.53%

MD4: 23.69%

NTLM: 14.97%

DCC: 0.85%

Full changelog:

Quote:type: feature

file: kernels

desc: added support for AMD GPU's "Devastator" and "Scrapper"

type: feature

file: kernels

desc: added -m 600 = nsldap, SHA-1(Base64), Netscape LDAP SHA

type: feature

file: kernels

desc: added -m 700 = nsldaps, SSHA-1(Base64), Netscape LDAP SSHA

type: feature

file: kernels

desc: added -m 1300 = MSSQL(2000)

type: feature

file: kernels

desc: added -m 2300 = MSSQL(2005)

type: feature

file: kernels

desc: added -m 2400 = Cisco-PIX MD5

type: feature

file: kernels

desc: added support for vector datatypes on NV for better sm_21 utilization

type: feature

file: host programs

desc: added support for mixed GPU types (example: hd5970 and hd6850)

type: feature

file: host programs

desc: simplified --pw-skip and --pw-limit for more intuitive usuage, see hashcat wiki for details

type: feature

file: host programs

desc: added --pw-skip-plain and --pw-limit-plain, user can specify a string instead of a number